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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
InterContinental Tokyo Bay renewal The InterContinental Tokyo Bay Hotel in the waterfront area of the capital has renovated its executive levels, from the 18th to 24th floors, and opened these new rooms in April to offer more exclusive services to its customers. The rooms ...
May and June are the months in which to visit Okinawa if your aim is to witness the spectacle of fiercely contested races between crews paddling dragon boats or the Ryukyu Islands' small traditional fishing boats called sabani.
Luxury French courses for spring The Hotel New Otani Tokyo’s luxurious French restaurant, La Tour d’Argent, will offer special springtime courses from April 24 to May 28. The courses feature spring foods on the theme of the goddess of flowers, Flora (Flore in French), ...
Cathay Facebook quiz Cathay Pacific Airways is holding a special promotion on its official Japanese Facebook page (www.facebook.com/cathaypacificJP) through April 26. On the page, quizzes about the airline are offered, and for each quiz, three respondents out of all those who answer correctly will ...
Before he left Japan after several years spent in Hiroshima, the multi-award-winning English novelist David Mitchell advised me: “If you only make one trip while you are here, make sure it’s to the Oki Islands.” They were, he assured me (in not quite so ...
In celebration of the first anniversary of one of the Grand Pacific Le Daiba hotel’s most outstanding and popular rooms, called Project Room-G, and accommodating requests from Gundam enthusiasts, the Tokyo hotel will continue to offer the special rooms while also adding a new ...
With degrees in fine arts, Akiyoshi Osumi used his creative talents to coin a perfect slogan for the Appi Kogen Snow Resort: “Be Happy in Appi.” Appi, which is open for spring skiing until May 6, really is an oasis of happiness in northern ...
Handmade pasta fair at Shangri-La The Shangri-La Hotel, Tokyo is holding a special dinner fair, offering a course called Pasta e Pasta that features handmade, fresh pasta at its Italian restaurant, Piacere, on the 28th floor, through April 14. The restaurant’s pasta is kneaded ...
Helicopter transmissions Eurocopter Japan has delivered its first helicopter equipped for high-speed, real-time data transmission to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency. The system is expected to be in operation in early April, This installation — called Helicopter Satellite Communication System (HSA) — on ...
When new buildings were constructed in 1971 at Matsuo-taisha in Kyoto, one of Japan's oldest shrines, the largely self-taught landscape master Mirei Shigemori was commissioned to create a series of gardens on the site.
The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, or "Teikoku Hotel," has occupied the same privileged location, across from Hibiya Park and minutes from the Imperial Palace, for over a century.
In April 1890, the Japanese government shipped more than 1,200 political prisoners from all over the country, including samurai insurgents from the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion against the government of Emperor Meiji. Nine years before, more than 250 years of rule by the Tokugawa shoguns ...